Iain Overton
Executive Director, Action on Armed Violence (website)
twitter: @iainoverton        web: www.iainoverton.com
email: ioverton [at] aoav [dot] org [dot] uk
phone: +44 079 84645145

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small arms and light weapons | explosive weapons | landmines and cluster munitions | harm to civilians

Iain Overton is Executive Director at the London-based nonprofit Action on Armed Violence. He has been witness to the devastating impact of armed violence on numerous occasions and has reported on conflict or extremes of violence in Ukraine, Syria/Jordan, Pakistan, Philippines, Kosovo, Nagorno Karabakh, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Iraq, Solomon Islands, Mexico, the West Bank, Somalia and Liberia. His human rights reporting has been awarded a Peabody Award, two Amnesty Awards and a BAFTA Scotland, among others. He is the author of 'Gun Baby Gun: A Bloody Journey Into the World of Firearms' (2015) and ‘The Price of Paradise: How the Suicide Bomber Shaped the Modern Age' (2019). Overton holds an MPhil and BA from Cambridge University and obtained his PhD from the University of Portsmouth.


​Recent Publications:

• "Shinzo Abe’s assassination and firearm control in Japan," Action on Armed Violence, July 8, 2022.
• "Explosive Violence Monitor: 2021," Action on Armed Violence, launched April 5, 2022.*
• "In Sending Weapons to Ukraine We Must Not Forget the Lessons of History," Byline Times, March 14, 2022. 
• "The Ugly Face of War: How Technology is Set to Change the Battlefield," Byline Times, February 7, 2022.
• "The Improvised Explosive Device and ‘The Propaganda of the Deed’," Action on Armed Violence, December 13, 2021.*
• "The targeting of high-rises in Gaza: an analysis of Israel’s air strikes on tall buildings in 2021," Action on Armed Violence, September 30, 2021.
• "The Politics Of Torture & the Erosion of Truth," ByLine Times, May 26, 2021.
• "A Decade of Explosive Violence Harm, 2011-2020," AOAV, May 25, 2021.*
• “Explosive violence trends and patterns in Afghanistan (2011-2020),” Action on Armed Violence, April 14, 2021.*
• "Explosive Violence Monitor 2020," Action on Armed Violence, March 2, 2021.*
• "Childhood Under Attack: A timeline of harm following an explosive blast," Action on Armed Violence, February 25, 2021.*
• "A decade of global IED harm reviewed," Action on Armed Violence, October 15, 2020.
• ​"War is Boring – But We Need to Scrutinise the Military More than Ever," Byline Times, September 29, 2020.*
• "Explosive violence monitor 2019," Action on Armed Violence, September 4, 2020.*
• "Global explosive violence sharply declines during Covid19, new data suggests," Action on Armed Violence, August 12, 2020.
• "Blast injury: the reverberating health consequences from the use of explosive weapons," Action on Armed Violence, July 10, 2020.

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